The award-winning film “Dheepan,” a tale of human survival, opens June 17 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
Also continuing to show is “Maggie’s Plan,” a modern romantic comedy directed by Rebecca Miller.
“Dheepan,” winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, follows a Tamil soldier (played by Antonythasan Jesuthasan) who is on the losing side of a Sri Lanka civil war. The soldier poses as the husband and father or two refugees in an effort to escape their ravaged homeland.
Arriving in France, the makeshift “family” works to establish a new life, but becomes embroiled in violence on mean streets of Paris.
Directed by Jacques Audiard, “Dheepan” is a saga of three strangers united by circumstance and struggle.
“Dheepan” is rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality and nudity.
In “Maggie’s Plan,” Greta Gerwig is Maggie Hardin, a vibrant and practical 30-something New Yorker working in education. Unable to find love, Maggie decides to have a child on her own. But, when she meets John Harding (played by Ethan Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling writer, Maggie falls in love and adjusts her plans for motherhood. Those plans are soon complicated as John is unhappily married to Georgette Harding (Julianne Moore), an ambitious academic driven by her work.
With help from her eccentric and hilarious friends, married couple Tony (Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph), Maggie sets in motion a new plan that intertwines their lives and connects them in surprising and funny ways.
Through her plan, Maggie learns that sometimes destiny should be left to its own devices.
“Maggie’s Plan” is rated R for language and brief sexuality.
Both films show at the Ross through June 23.
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